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Munchkin Managers Ruston Evans, left, and Greer Ray fill water bottles to keep the Clinton High School football team hydrated Friday at Poteau.

(AP) — U.S. Army veteran Matt Schermerhorn couldn’t give blood for years because he was stationed in Europe during a deadly mad cow disease scare there. Now, he’s proud to be back in the donor’s chair.

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No one was thought to be seriously injured in a two-vehicle accident on U.S. Highway 183 near Mecham Road around noon Monday involving this car and a semi.

Teachers receive free flu shots at school

With the height of flu season just around the corner, Clinton Public Schools recently teamed up with Salisbury Pharmacy to give free flu shots and COVID-19 vaccinations to CPS staff.

Brach Anthony Hornbuckle, 27, of Lawton, has been charged with endangering others while attempting to elude police and other officers in Clinton on Nov. 11. He was also charged with driving under the influence, malicious injury to property and driving a motor vehicle under a suspended license. According to an affidavit filed by Custer County Sheriff’s Deputy Dylan Ward, around 9:15 p.m. that night he was advised that Oklahoma Highway Patrol Trooper Kelby Peoples was in pursuit of a black Nissan Rouge in Clinton. A short time later, Ward was advised that Trooper Peoples had lost the vehicle near the area of Glenn Smith Road. Ward later observed a vehicle matching the description going westbound on Route 66 east of Glenn Smith Road. The deputy wrote that he tried to catch up with the vehicle driving at 45 mph but it was moving faster in a 35-mph zone. The license plate of the vehicle was the same as the one on the vehicle Trooper Peoples had been pursuing.

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